[EAS] The California Fires - Another view

[JGabb at aol.com]

It probably would not work....so many people had only 5 minutes to evacuate. The winds were 60 to 90 MPH some people didn't even have time to pick up their purses or wallets. Once it calms down we will get together with all involved and see what happened, how can we make it better , etc. Reportedly over 30 cell towers were down, power was out in most places.
 
Jim Gabbert
SECC Chair
 
In a message dated 10/20/2017 8:05:21 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, askenyon at cox.net writes:
>http://www.govtech.com/em/disaster/Firefighters-Officers-in-Sonoma-County-Ruj
>shed-to-Help-as-Fires-Destroyed-Their-Homes.html

>As family and neighbors tried to escape, they encountered roads clogged with panicked drivers and public safety personnel trying to keep people from harm's way, fire sweeping westward 

>Maybe this wasn't a case where large-scale mass alerting would have been appropriate after all.